Heads Up :
The post you are writing will appear in a public forum. Please ensure all content is appropriate for public consumption. Review the employee guidelines for the community here.
I am setting up multiple VLAN's in a small to medium size office with 180 hosts. To do this, I will add a layer 3 switch as a distribution switch to link up multiple L2 switches that have up to 4 VLAN's each. There are two routers in the office, on...
am trying to set up several VLAN's on a Cisco 3560 switch. These new segments should be able to communicate with VLAN 1 and even access the Internet. I managed to add the VLAN's and have network connectivity between the new VLAN's. However, routing...
Stuart,
You are quite right in stating that a router port would be more efficient as it turns off those unnecessary protocols.
In our situation, the port is used for connecting to an Internet gateway, the slight performance difference does not matt...
Thanks for the reply. You have pointed out the exact cause of the problem. Following your advice, I added two static routes on the router (which is the DG of LAN1) and now all VLAN's can route to each other.
The configuration I used was adapted fr...
